Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Mentally Ill / Gun Free
    12 Jan. 2020
    Disturbing and gut-wrenching, this play will churn up deeply felt emotions and haunt you for days after reading it. Beautifully handled all the way through, Salisbury has written another unfortunately necessary piece of theater for out times.
  • Hunter, Hunted, and Those Who Watch
    12 Jan. 2020
    I don't think I've ever seen bullying presented so poetically, or with such theatricality. And that Hageman presents the issue from three sides, and presents it so clearly, just adds to the power of the work. This should be a required text in HS English courses, as well as produced at assemblies regularly.
  • Good Morning, Miriam
    9 Jan. 2020
    What a beautiful play. By going into the mind of Miriam, Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn brings us right into the terror and heartbreak of loss. And while pulling no punches, she does it with sympathetic grace and tenderness. Moving, at times humorous, often sad, and just... beautiful.
  • My Pretty Pink Rifle
    9 Jan. 2020
    Horrifying, gut-wrenching, and all too possibly possible, Jennifer Walton’s “My Pretty Pink Rifle” graphically hits a bullseye. A stunning statement about gun culture in the USA, Walton takes down every argument 2nd Amendment advocates have through the simple, deceptively clear-eyed logic of a child who is too young to completely grasp the horror and tragedy she caused with her pretty pink rifle. Heartbreaking and intense, this play should be produced everywhere.
  • Online Education
    8 Jan. 2020
    In "Online Education," Liza Case has pinpointed the exact moment the American Dream became the American Nightmare, and it happened while most of the country was sleeping. One of the most chillingly accurate portrayals of how apathy and voting against one's own interests in the name of party loyalty has brought us to the terrible state of affairs in this country, "Online Education" must be read and produced. Often. And loudly.
  • TEACH: ANOTHER MONOLOGUE THAT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WRITE
    8 Jan. 2020
    Another powerful piece from Wyndham which quite literally took my breath away at several points by how surprisingly matter-of-fact he limns out the inevitability of his premise. A stunning, horrifying, heartbreaking, and tragic work.
  • One Time
    5 Jan. 2020
    What a charming, touching two-hander from Richard Lyons Conlon, with two wonderfully prickly, but endearingly human characters whose stories weave a tale spanning more than thirty years of love, loss, and regret. Terrific roles for older actors.
  • Time Travelers Can Apply Yesterday
    4 Jan. 2020
    Well, this will be fun now that I've read it next week. I will laugh a lot at Busser's wit, and I marveled at how he kept all of the various time-traveling moments so clearly organized throughout. Mind blowing. At least it will be. Or has already been. I don't care. I loved this play yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
  • Ghost Chicken
    4 Jan. 2020
    An angry Ghost Chicken, Cecil Cluck, and Dawn Notts (get it?) run afowl in a secluded place on a dark night, and the puns are non-stop. As are the laughs. Well done, Weaver!
  • Uncomfortable [a 1-minute monologue]
    4 Jan. 2020
    In one-minute, with one word, Martin says everything that needs to be said. Period. And... BOOM!

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